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Russian Imperial Stout - All-Grain Recipe Kit in! Thanks!

This wound up fantastic. A little singed during a hot spot actually gave it some nice coffee notes. Almost full bodied like a porter but super drinkable.

In secondary now, looks very pretty. Not sure if happenstance or just the style of beer but the richness and depth of color is unlike other brews I've made before.

I just used three stuffed brewsocks (cousin of BIAB) per my buddy. Worked great, sparged by taking socks into 165 preheated water, steeped for another 30 and reintroduced to wort.

hand-ground the grain which took a while but did my first all-grain mash brew. Only part I really had trouble with was keeping the mash at a good temp consistency. I had to reheat once it dipped and it jumped from 140 to 170 quickly, hopefully not for too long. It's in the primary now...

Using a little different grain selection (no white wheat was available) and Columbus instead of N.Brewer. First all-grain mash -- wish me luck!

Photo? Sounds like krausen to me, which is a good thing in this case. Means the yeast is doing its work Good idea. I'll snap one and post it when I get home. Thanks for all the help, everyone. :rockin:

Gah. I bet that's it. Although...I actually made a watermelon ale without issue doing basically the same thing. Stick blender and then slow simmer reduction.

It was extract with some reconstituted cranberries I had broken down and reduced. So there was loads of fermentable maltose and fructose. That's my main reason for worry is that the yeast just simply wasn't strong enough. One other characteristic is that there's this weird layer of foam/film...

Haha--I know I asked for that one ;) I've honestly never, ever taken OG and FG's because I just don't care about the booze content percentage. You can typically tell when you drink it ;) Although I certainly understand how it could be useful in diagnosing this issue here... :smack: I...

Okay, so I'm sure I know what I did was wrong (used a low gravity yeast in a double IPA) but I admit I got lazy and just tried two packets of the stuff. I know it started fermenting and there was some trub in the bucket after I transferred to secondary carboy, but it's cloudy and fugly...

Stumbled upon this site researching a brew I'd like to try to make....looks like a great place with a lot of useful info! Cheers! :tank: